5 Vietnamese women rescued from forced prostitution in Malaysia

Vietnamese women rescued from a prostitution ring from Malaysia in 2016. Photo by VietnamPlus

Police said they were trafficking victims and had been forced to work as prostitutes in Malacca for 10 months.

Police in Malaysia’s tourist town of Malacca rescued five Vietnamese women following a raid on a prostitution den.

Kamaluddin Kassim, chief assistant commissioner of the Malacca Criminal Investigations Department, told the News Strait Times that they had found the five Vietnamese women along with three Thai women who had been used as prostitutes at the brothel for the past 10 months.

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